In a sea of shimmying and twisting kids at a recent elementary school's father-daughter dance, Ray Mason was the center of attention — and not because he was two feet taller than everyone else on the dance floor.

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Another parent's video of Mason, 51, popping and locking at the February dance at Caldwood Elementary School has gone viral on social media with more than 3.5 million views.

Mason said his 12-year-old daughter Sadie transferred to Beaumont a few weeks ago. Her teacher encouraged the pair to attend the dance so they could get to know other students and parents.

Mason said Sadie was nervous the night of the Feb. 16 dance.

"She was excited, but when we got out of the car, she told me she had butterflies," he said.

After he taught Sadie how to slow dance during the second song of the night, Mason said his daughter suggested he wasn't dancing to his fullest potential.

"Towards the end of the dance, she told me I didn't look like I was having fun," Mason said. "'She told me, 'You don't dance like you do when we're at home.'"

Mason, who was a teen at the height of breakdancing, said he didn't want to embarrass his daughter since she had just started at the school.

"She told me, 'I don't even know anyone here. Just be you, Dad.'"

So the Port Neches-Groves graduate traveled back three decades in his mind and busted out his b-boying talents to the Bruno Mars' hit "24K Magic," a song Mason said he couldn't even recall if it weren't for the video.

"If you throw some '70s or '80s tracks at me, I'd be able to name them," he said.

In the video, posted by fellow parent Tobias Jones, Sadie looks anything but embarrassed as her dad slowly attracts the attention of nearby students and parents nearby.

"She's the real performer," Mason said of his daughter, who didn't skip a beat dancing next to him in the video. "She's going to be somebody one day."

Mason said by the following day he caught his coworkers at First National Reserve watching the video in the break room.